Acceptance Quotations | Page 2

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.

This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

Whether you're as healthy as you should be or not, that doesn't disallow you to look your best. Style is only possible from a place of self-acceptance.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Every man is the son of his own works.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

Be content to seem what you really are.

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

Of course there is no formila for success except perhaps and unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

One must view the government's acceptance of responsibility for the thefts as very important and we hope it will stand as a durable lesson for the future.

One of the attractions of the pig is the widespread acceptance that it is regarded as ethically proper to rear and then kill large numbers of pigs for food.